Techno Hell And Other Bits

I can’t fucking figure out how to use my damn Kindle with the Boston Public Library site! Did you know—the fucking Kindle doesn’t come with an instruction manual. Sure, sure, most people wouldn’t bother to read it even if it did. They’d just endlessly call the Help line or get their kids to show them how to use it. In my case, I could get Jen’s father to walk me through it. The problem here is that neither of us are especially mobile and we live 60 miles apart.

I suppose it’d be easier if I was buying eBooks instead of using it with the library…MAYBE. Getting the two sites to talk to each other like nice children is a whole ‘nother slice of Hell that the imaginative and lovely Signore Dante Alighieri never thought of.
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Okay, I found SOME instructions on the damn device itself. That’s cool and all save-the-planet-by-not-wasting-paper-and-ink-ish (see above: no-one bothers to read anyway) but I didn’t see anything about downloading from your local friendly library. Having said that, Jen and I seem to have, maybe, figured it out. Happily since the book I’d managed to download earlier was some weepy, transparent “mystery.” Yeah, I knew whodunnit on page 10. No, I didn’t need to waste my time reading the rest of it.
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In other news, apparently Drunk Peggy Noonan is upset that VP Kamala Harris is smarter, more attractive and in possession of way higher and significantly greater value than, yes, you guessed it, Drunk Peggy Noonan. Also too, I believe Drunk Peg is pissed that VP Harris was allowed off the plantation.
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Sex and the City is being rebooted. Okay, will there be a more realistic job to apartment balance? Rents for a studio apartment run from mid $3 thousands through the upper $4 thousands. One bedrooms start at $4,500 minimum. Will the girls be older and earning big bucks as investment bankers, popular artists or Internet publishers? Will they go out every night to hip, swank cocktail bars, wearing the latest fashions and sky nigh heels?

I enjoyed the first couple seasons of the original show but, after that, the utter implausibility just got to me.
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Oh and this. It's a dark, morning yet beautiful. All the same, I can't shake off my wish to nap.

Jen's awesome morning pic